Excerpt from The Manual Training Schedule: Suggested Exercises in Drawing Constructive Work and Design for All Grades in the Public Schools of the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City
Total time per week 180 minutes, to be divided into five periods of appropriate length, for lessons on Drills, Object Drawing, Illustrative Drawing. Color and Design and Constructive Work.
For Half Day Classes: the lessons on Object Drawing and Constructive Work are suggested.
Line Drills. - A lesson on drills should lie given the day before each lesson in Object Drawing. Backward pupils should practice these drills upon the blackboard.
Aim to secure in this practice, correct pencil holding, flexible wrist and free arm movement.
For the last five weeks a lesson on plant form drawing should be substituted for the drill lesson.
Object Drawing Lessons. - One Lesson Each Week.
Aim to secure large drawings, centrally placed. Emphasize proper pencil holding and free arm movement.
In plant form drawing aim at true direction of line and shape of mass. Use color where possible.
In Object Drawing, use crayon or pencil; in Plant Form drawing, crayon, chalk, charcoal or brush.
1. Drill on horizontal lines.
2. Drill on vertical and horizontal lines.
3. Square object, as handkerchief.
4. Straight line object, as window pole.
5. Oblong object, as picture frame or flag.
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